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Movie Reviews by John Beifuss - Page 13 of 98

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Review of Tomorrowland (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 07 Jun 2015

With Athena the android replacing Clarence the angel, it's an 'It's a Wonderful Life' for the 21st century…

Review of Love & Mercy (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 07 Jun 2015

Contrary to the diagnosis of his control-freak psychotherapist, Beach Boy Brian Wilson was not exactly schizophrenic…

Review of Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 01 Jun 2015

Like the money from 'Fargo' that inspires Kumiko's quest, this movie something of a buried treasure itself…

Review of Bessie (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 01 Jun 2015

Presents the powerhouse vocalist as a blues belter in more ways than one -- a pugnacious scrapper with a fierce streak of racial pride, a sexual…

Review of Good Kill (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 May 2015

As the anti-'American Sniper,' 'Good Kill' makes the case for the value of 'American Sniper,' a movie that isn't quite sure what to make of…

Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 May 2015

Isn't Tony Stark/Iron Man, stumping for 'a suit of armor around the world,' basically a combination Klaatu/Gort, endorsing the plan for an…

Review of Lambert & Stamp (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 May 2015

An entertaining portrait of the two colorful impresarios who more or less discovered and nurtured The Who as the band evolved from the underground…

Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 May 2015

The brutality and frankness of Hardy's storytelling may surprise those used to more genteel period adaptations…

Review of Monsters: Dark Continent (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 May 2015

The evidence suggests director Tom Green is more a fan of Kathryn Bigelow and Terrence Malick than of Ray Harryhausen; that's not a bad thing,…

Review of Mad Max (1979)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 May 2015

Manages not to waste a single frame of film even as it wastes countless motorcycles, trailers, automobiles and other vehicles across the bad…

Review of The D Train (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 May 2015

With one genuinely surprising plot twist, it presents itself as a proud provocation and a challenge to both audience expectations and the 'bromance…

Review of Maggie (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 May 2015

A metaphor at the expense of genre; it is so obviously 'really' a story about a girl with a fatal disease or deadly addiction and 'not really…

Review of Thunder Road (1958)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 May 2015

Bruce Springsteen borrowed its title and Burt Reynolds appropriated its anti-'revenooer' appeal, but just shy of its 60th anniversary, 'Thunder…

Review of Unfriended (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 May 2015

By turning the movie screen into a laptop, Gabriadze flattens the picture as surely as if he were an artist experimenting with painting in…

Review of The Salt of the Earth (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 May 2015

Salgado's later portraits of reptiles, gorillas, walruses and other animals provide evidence of a kinship with humankind that explains the…

Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 May 2015

In the 1979 'Mad Max,' a makeup-effects insert shot shows the doomed Toecutter's eyes bulging impossibly from his head in the instant before…

Review of Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 May 2015

Moviegoers who require stories that direct the characters from A to B with the efficiency of Valentine's misplaced road map may be frustrated,…

Review of Insurgent (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 09 Apr 2015

Fresh characters include antipodal substitute mother figures for the newly orphaned Tris -- namely, a huggable agragrian played by Octavia…

Review of Woman in Gold (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 09 Apr 2015

Clearly, the most significant 'Woman in Gold' here is not the portrait nor Adele Bloch-Bauer herself (portrayed in flashback by Antje Traue)…

Review of Furious 7 (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 09 Apr 2015

With heroes like these, who needs terrorists…

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